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From First SUtesmuL March ZS. 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
' CHARLES A SPRAGUS, Editor and Publisher
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Men Against the Seas
"Leaving, now" remain the last words from
the crew of the SS Pennsylvania. Aerial and
surface search failed to locate any lifeboats
from the stricken vessel, but the spread of de
bris over the area near where the ship was last
reported is taken as proof that it sank. Grave
concern is felt over the fate of the crew of 45,
several of whom were Oregonians, as the Penn
sylvania was one of the fleet operated by States
Steamship Company, Vancouver and Portland.
If the crew is lost the sinking will rate as one
of the worst disasters in North Pacific waters.
It has some parallel with the loss of the SS
Iowa off the mouth of the Columbia, which oc
curred Jan. 12, 1936. It was owned by States
Steamship Company too, and its entire comple
ment of 34 men were drowned. The Iowa had
crossed the bar when it was caught by a heavy
gale and thrown on Peacock Spit in early morn
ing hours. Summoned by a single faint SOS
signal from the Iowa's radio the Coast Guard
Cutter Onandaga went out over the bar, but
when it came in sight of the wreck only its
masts and samson posts were showing. There
was not a single survivor.
There have been many wrecks along the
North Pacific coast. Probably the worst was the
sinking of the Brother Jonathan, bound from
San Francisco to Portland, on July 30, 1865, off
Crescent City. It had a lull passenger list and
many prominent in Northwest history were
among the 155 who were drowned.
A recent book by James A. Gibbs Jr., "Paci
fic Graveyard," contains the story of shipwreck
and disaster off the Columbia's mouth and in
adjacent waters. There was the Great Republic
which grounded on San Island near the river
mouth in 1879 with loss of eleven lives. Forty
two lives were lost when the steamer General
Warren grounded on Clatsop Spit in 1852. In
1913 the Rosecrans sank off Peacock Spit with
loss of 33.
The Admiral Benson of Pacific Steamship
Company got caught in the sands near Peacock
Exin 1930. Coast Guard lifeboats took off the
passengers and part of the crew, the others go
ing ashore by breeches buoy. Like Captain Carl
sen on the Flying Enterprise, Captain Graham
stayed aboard for four days and nights, finally
giving up the ship and coming off on a line
made fast between wreck and shore.
Another captain who stayed with his ship was
Captain Johnson whose ship, the Laurel, lumber-laden
outbound from the Columbia for the
East coast, broke in two and wallowed in the
seas that broke over Peacock Spit. Passengers
and crew were taken off but Johnson stayed on
the rear half of the ship for 54 hours. Finally he
raised a white flag in signal to the Coast Guard
to take him off. When asked why he refused to
abandon ship Johnson replied:
"I didn't want to be a hero. I stayed on what
was left of the ship to protect Its cargo from
salvagers. I had hoped that the after section of
the ship would be washed on the beach so sal
vage would be possible, but the bulkheads gave
away which prompted me to fly the white flag."
So Captain C arisen had predecessors among
ships' captains reluctant to leave their sinking
ships. His bravery with the Flying Enterprise
has attracted world attention; but the ominous
silence which has attended the disappearance of
the crew of the Pennsylvania gives little mate
rial "for reporters to work on. Hope is by no
means gone, but it fades as the hours pass.
Dewey Not in Grandstand
With all the bugle-blaring that attended the
muffled drum announcement of the candidacy
of General Eisenhower for President, one nam
was conspicuously absent from the news, that
of Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Dewey was in
on none of the rites; yet it was Dewey who in
1950 gave the big initial impetus to the Draft
Ike movement. He made the renunciation of
presidential ambition for himself and at the
same time hailed the general as the man for the
republicans to nominate.
What happened in the interval can only ba
guessed at. There was something of a scramble
in setting up the Eisenhower organization. The
Dewey people were trying itCong. Hugh Scott
of Pennsylvania, who was GOP chairman on
Dewey's choice in 1948, came out to Seattle in
Ike's behalf. But Senator Duff of Pennsylvania
is anti-Dewey. Apparently he maneuvered with
Senator Carlson of Kansas and Lodge of Massa
chusetts to shoulder Dewey out and control the
setup themselves. The pair did the conferring
with Ike on his trip home several weeks ago,
and seem to have done the talking with him
over the moves of last week. Dewey was left
with lariat still tied to his saddlehorn.
Politics and time soften political asperities.
Ike will need New York, and the Dewey organi
zation across the country is the only one really
able to carry on the campaign for delegates at
the grassroots leveL We may expect the Lodge-Duff-Carlson
contingent to invite the active co
operation of Dewey-Brownell-Scott in putting
their man over. They had better do it, for the
Taft crowd is well braced against another 1940
Willkie stampede.
Detention Camp at Tulelake
The federal Bureau of Prisons is taking over
the former relocation center for Japanese at
Tulelake, near Klamath Falls, and will prepare
it for "detention of subversives if the need
arises." This has a sinister sound. It suggests
the concentration camps of totalitarian coun
tries. It carries the inference also that the time
is "later than we think."
Most people are trying to forget the blunder
and minor tragedy of relocating Japanese from
the West Coast in the last war, with its great
expense to the government and loss and distress
to the Japanese and no significant contribution
to West Coast security. We dread the prospect
of the FBI rounding up droves of alleged sub
versives and confining them in barracks. We do
not anticipate any U. S. resort to gas chambers,
but a detention camp is still a place of confine
ment. There is nothing in the present outlook dif
fering from the recent past to prompt this move
by the federal government. Surely better us
for time and money may be found than ready
ing barracks for alleged subversives.
The Astoria schoolboard is having difficulty
finding a site for a new high school plant. We're
sure fhey will not put it in the slide area there
least it slide off into the Columbia some day.
The Saturday Review of Literature had a
cartoon in a recent issue which gave a new
twist to the fear of the military mind. It showed
one old duffer (circum 1800) who said to an
other: "Mr. Jefferson? He may be all right but
I don't like the idea of a civilian for president."
MacArthur Likely Appointee as Secretary
Of State in Event of Sen. Taft's Election
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fcTY Joseph and Stewart Alsep
WASHINGTON Favorite po
litical parlor game In Washing
ton these days in composing
Imaginary cafai- gm-pv
dent Robert Al-V
phonso Taft.!
Under the rules, 1
the theoretical
the future is
chosen by the
usual method,
from among the
leading men
who have most
valuably tup
ported the Taft
forces in the grim pre-election
struggle. Some typical results of
this new pastime are perhaps
worth recording.
JFor Secretary of State, Gen
eral" of the Army Douglas Mac
Arthur has the lead. No one has
played so eminent a role in the
Taft preconvention campaign.
No one, seem
ingly, has con
tributed more
importantly to
the mature Taf
tian theory of
foreign rela
tions. As the
leading global
thinker in the
Taft camp, the
general has a
p r e s c r ip tive
right to this
post.
For Secretary of Defense. Col.
Robert R. McCormick wins hands
down. The self-confessed inven
tor of the rifle, a noted student
of military strategy, and above
all, the owner of the crucial Illi
noise delegation, the colonel looks
Uke a natural.
'For Attorney General. Sea.
Joseph X. McCarthy is strongly
favored. Tbe McCarthy
Ua acalnst altered Coi
1st plotters la the revernment
has areatir strengthened the
pftblle rapport for Taft. As At
tows if General, McCarthy will
that e sabverstvea
M.
infiltrate the new administration,
and even if his methods of nnr
snlnx this approved objective be
come a trifle excitable. Presi
dent Taft wiH bo there to hold
him in check.
For Secretary of Commerce,
Sen. Owen Brewster is first
choice. As the great senatorial
friend of Pan-American Airways,
Sen. Brewster takes a lively in
terest in civil aviation, control
of which centers in the Com
merce Department. And as the
leading Taft lieutenant in the
Senate, Brewster ought to have
his pick of jobs.
For Secretary of Labor. Ken.
Fred Hartley, co-author of the
Taft-Hartley act, Is almost auto
matically named.
About other places there is
some dispute. Many favor Sewell
Avery for Secretary of the Trea
sury, as a conspicuous meeter of
pay rolls, but it is also objected
that this will make two members
of the cabinet from Illinois.
Again, most players of the game
agree that the Interior Depart
ment ought to go to the Right
Wing Western Republican who
can break Gov. Warren's control
of the California delegation in
Sen. Taffs favor; but there is
argument about who this will be.
While some predict that the
chief of the China lobby, Alfred
Kohlberr. will be called to serve
as Under Secretary of State,
others assert thai Kohlberr will
only receive the Assistant Secre
taryship for Far Eastern Affairs.
Arain. there is debate about
whether Bri. Gen. Hanfor$ sfc
Nider or Maj. Gen. Patrick J.
Hurley ought to be Secretary of
the Army.
And although John Marshall,
who has learned the South's pro
' blems at the auctions of Southern
Republican delegates, is widely
favored for chairman of the pro
posed voluntary Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission,
others assert that Marshall's
faithful services merit a higher
reward.
at any rate, are
The Safety
Valve
You can tell that Spring is just around the next snowstorm.
Because already, lots of people ars being stricken with sever
cases of Spade Fever, better known as Dementia Pea-planting.
This garden variety of Planter's Itch is ag
gravated this time of year by seed catalogues
and propaganda displays of fancy flora, fan
tastic fauna and new - type garden tools in
store windows. Citizens who have behaved
themselves all winter suddenly are beginning
to talk in a disjointed manner of the good
earth, bug re pell ants and fertilizers.
enough to convey the general
idea of the Taft cabinet game,
which is strongly tinned with the
customary malice of politics in an
election year. Obviously no one
really expects Sen. Taft to con
struct a cabinet of the sort listed,
although some of the men men
tioned, such as Gen. MacArthur,
might well be called to serve un
der President Taft.
Nonethless, these imagined lists
of Taft cabinet members conceal
a point of enduring meaning for
the coming election. The truth
is that all of the men named a
bove will have most important
claims on Sen. Taft if he wins the
Presidency. The further truth is
that at the moment, these men
and others like them are the
most conspicuous figures in the
Taft camp. And this in turn
must constitute a serious dilem
ma for Sen. Taft.
On the one hand, the Senator
does not really agree, so far as
the record shows, with all that Is
said and believed by these emi
nent supporters of bis, even in
cluding Gen. MacArthur. He can
proclaim his independence of all
of them; he can even repudiate
some of them, before convention
time comes. He will then stand
forth as an unusually capable
middle-of-the-road leader, parti
cularly with regard to domestic
policy, and his great experience
and visible integrity will have
full value.
On the other hand, it will be
immensely hard for Sen. Taft to
take this course, of edging away
from many of the chief men in
his camp. But if he does not do
so, it will also be very hard for
independent voters, and even for
large groups of Republicans, to
support a candidate who has been
carried to the presidential nomi
nation on this particular group
of shoulders. This is, in fact, th
biggest single problem that Sen.
Taft has to face; and next to Gen.
Eisenhower himself, it is also the
biggest asset of the Eisenhower
movement.
(Oooyricht. 152.
Now Tartr KeraM Trthmta Im ft
Grown men will stop you on the street cor
ner these days in a raging snowstorm. With
eyes overbrixht they tell you well, it wont bo
long now before It's time to get those early peas in the ground.
As they stand there in the slush they say they'll soon have to get
out in that old garden. While water runs down your and his
necks these amateur agriculturists speak eagerly of peas, beans,
carrots, radishes and onions. And before they finally take off In
to the storm they shake your hand with the old Spado Handle
Grip. And you know they've had it again.
These Passionate Planters fall into a variety of classes. First
there is the Expert He knows nearly everything about garden
ing and can even figure out how much his garden set him back
last year. Then there is the Idealist He outlines big plans for
his garden this year (usually in front of your wife), and, what's
worse, he'll probably carry them out. We also have the Realist
He frankly admits that his tomatoes will probably not resem
ble the seed catalogue pictures. The Tinkerer tries every new
device, chemical and plan designed to grow bigger and better
carrots.
This brings us down to tbo man who regrets he has but one
life to lay down for bis family. This man, all too familiar to true
blue spade artists, is the fellow who really would like to grow a
dandy garden and whose wife would really like to watch him
grow a dandy garden. But by careful planning and juggling of
engagements be usually manages to be fishing, hunting, working,
visiting, sick, lame, or off to a funeral when there is sod-tumlng
or pea-planting to be done. He always stands out m a crowd
during the Spring of the year because his wife has callouses.
But all in all where can a poor desk-bound citizen get mora
satisfaction than in gardening? Who can recall with a dry eye
the way, during last gardening time, the timid little bean sprouts
came peeping up where you thought you had planted rutabages?
And what happy hoer can ever forget the thrill of harvesting
his first tomato after months of back-breaking labor, constant
watering, plenty of feeding and hours of weeding. What fonder
fate, we repeat, can befall a man than to relax on his back stoop
of a pleasant summer's eve watching-his wife turn the garden
soil while his children happily tramp down the lettuce plants.
Solons Plan to
Put Korea Vets
Under CI Bill
By HAKXY T. SNTDEK
WASHINGTON OP) - The GI
Bill of Rights appears headed for
some changes this year as Con
gress considers proposals to extend
its benefits to veterans of the Ko
rean conflict.
Chairman Rankin (D-Miss) of
the House Veterans Affairs Com
mittee said Saturday hearings on
such legislation win get underway
Feb. .
So far the committee has under
study 20 bills on the subject. Their
principal theme: Give the Korean
war veterans the same treatment
accorded the men of World War
II.
One of tbe measures drafted
by the American Legion calls for
marked changes, however, in the
.educational and training provi
sions of the servicemen's read
justment act.
And another along this same
line will be introduced soon by
Rep. Teague (D-Texas) on behalf
of a special committee that has
been Investigating the Veterans'
Administration's hrHifpg of GI
education and training.
The Teague committee, which
uncovered a host of abuses of the
training program, is still analyz
ing results of its nation-wide in
quiry. It wound up hearings late
last month.
Confident of Action
Rankin told reporters he is con-
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invites correspondence with un
pretentious gal ..."
Another chap, a smarty who
hung his vocabularly on the
clothes-line, wrote this one out:
"Sardonic dilettante, allowing
of intermittent intellectual pere
grinations, would entertain reci
procative communications from
the distaff side, with view to
wards dichotomous correspond
ence if mental reapprochment
appears plausible ..."
(Some one should have thrown
a dictionary at bis head.)
The column was not just a ma
trimonial exchange by any
means. Other sophisticates sought
to peddle their wares and serv
ices by that medium. Here is a
sample:
""Poison in his oatmeal will end
the problem child but not your
problems. We may have the an
swer in a t-week personalized
course for 8-12 year-olds . .
; Come January, 1952 and J. R.
Cominsky, treasurer of the maga
zine company, announced the dis
continuance of the personal ads
la the Personal cohimn. He ad
mitted the column had brought
fame and profits to the maga
zine, but with an enlarged circu
lation the job of policing the ad
vertising was getting harder. The
publishers were afraid some ad
might lead to a disaster, so to the
regret of readers and of the lone
ly and frustrated the personal
ads are no longer accepted.
At the same time Mr. Comin
sky announced that the weekly
with a circulation of over 100,000
was firmly on its feet, and that
it was shortening its title to Sat
urday Review. The magazine is
broadening its content beyond
the literary field and attracting
a wider clientele than "bookish
folks and highbrows." In its
early years the SRL was subsid
ized by the Morgan partner, Tho
mas W. Lamont, but reflecting
on the returns from the Person
als column Cominsky observed:
"The poet Untermeyer showed
the banker Jamont how to make
money.
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O give me the man who sings
at bis work! Be his work what it
may, he will do more in the same
time he will do it better he
will persevere longer.
Thomas Carlyle
Skeletons of an unidentified race
of men were unearthed in the Co
lumbian Andes near Bogota by sci
entists la 1851.
WAR AND PEACE AND
"GOLDEN AGE
To The Editor:
Two young fellows, the editor
and Prof. Haley of Willamette
U., have been talking about the
Golden Age and when it hap
pened. They are not old enough
to know, but Herbert Hoover (the
same age as I) is right in declar
ing it was the twenty-five years
preceding World War 1. Those
who were then adults fondly re
member that people were nicer
then: better neighbors, less sel
fish, more kindly, considerate
and honest; even some members
of congress were honest. Our nat
ion had been at peace with all
the world for a third of a century
and the country was full of smiles
and good will. We liked each
other and most of the world liked
us, and we enjoyed our rights un
der the constitution we then had.
Then came the war, changing a
large number of the young men
of that generation into hard-eyed
mobsters. It set us back about
twenty-five years in human de
cency, and Hoover organized the
department of commerce and
showed big biz how to stomp on
everybody and get away with it.
Then came World War II, bring
ing another set-back and the re
crudescence of J. Edgar Hoover
of Palmer raid fame, the en
thronement of NAM and militar
ists as dictators, the building of
the Pentagon, the determination
to make the USA a warlike na
tion instead of a peaceful one, the
forcing of military instruction in
to schools and colleges, which,
according to Gen. Clay, is not for
training but for "indoctrination."
Now we have got ourselves
another war, and by the time it
ends we won't be fit to associate
with each other. It is amusing
that people are now vacuously
talking about hard times and
accusing each other. This long
winded screed is aimed at saying
that 'times' do not change and
get hard, but people do and
people make the times. It is
strange that they do not realize
that war always brings bad times,
and peace the opposite. It might,
in fact, after a long trek back,
bring another Golden Age.
A. M. Church
John Quincy Adams, sixth presi
dent of the United States, was born
July 11, 1767, at Brain tree, Mass.
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fldent Congress wiH act on behalf
of the Korean veterans. But he
steered clear of Dredictins? what
changes might be made in the
act If
His committee, he said, wfll
hear testimony from the Veteran
Administration, the General Ac
countant Office, the Bureau of
the Budget and four veterans' or
ganizations in the opening .days,
of the Inquiry.
He expects the bearing to last
several weeks. Once a measure Is
agreed upon, it's a good bet little
time will be lost in getting it
the House floor.
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